[Providence, RI]

Kate Colby, Iris Cushing, Jesse Nissim, Deborah Poe
October 17, 2015, 7:00 pm
at Aurora

Kate Colby is author of six books, including Unbecoming Behavior (UDP, 2008), The Return of the Native (UDP, 2011) and Fruitlands (Litmus Press), which won the Norma Farber First Book Award in 2007. She is a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she was a 2012 fellow of the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. Her most recent book, I Mean, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2015. Iris Cushing is a poet and editor living in New York. She is the author of Wyoming (Furniture Press Books, 2013), and is the recipient of a 2014 Process Space residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for her poetry performance work. She edits Argos Books. Jesse Nissim is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Day cracks between the bones of the foot (Furniture Press Books, 2013), SELF NAMED BODY (Finishing Line Press, 2012), and Alphabet for M (Dancing Girl Press, 2007). Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). In addition, Deborah co-edited Between Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism (Peter Lang) with Dr. Ama Wattley.